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Turbulence in Fluids (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, 40)

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I think that this book is quite good. Is the only book where I found a detailed treatment of the EDQNM model and also some less known models as RNG techniques. There are also good discussions on topics like geostrophic turbulence, enstrophy and rotating turbulence, that cannot be found in other "standard" books on general turbulence like the books of Pope or Mathieu or the "old" Hinze. This book is harder to read than the Pope's book or Tennekes&Lumley, which are more introductory. It is an excellent complement for that books, but I don't think is the best choice as your first turbulence book. My only complaint is the very high price.

Lesieur's third edition of Turbulence in Fluids is embarassingly bad. First of all there was strictly no point in publishing a third edition of this book. The author has obviously done no proper scientific research for ten years, so that there are no particularly new results with respect to older editions of the book.

In fact the author claims that this book is suitable as a graduate course in advance fluid mechanics and the foreword of the book is suggestive of the author having published a third edition specially to make this point, to dump a paperback version on the market and thus to sell a few more copies.

You will also note the rapid, sketchy and mediocre addition of K41 theory in physical space following the remark made by U. Frisch on the omission of this topic in the earlier editions of this book.

The author latexed the book himself, but contrary to the earlier editions there are many misprints and incomplete sentences or even fragments of sentences out of place. This book cannot even pretend to be a draft.

One could go on and on on this very pathetic text. Fortunately it is published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, whose high pricing policy is even more absurd regarding this text.

Although the last chapters on real world turbulence constitute an original initiative, again they are a total fiasco.

This is just all so embarrassing.